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Show ----- 11 - ' -v i i ' 1 ' - - 1 . -.- rpr-r j m m n ; y . , --f y- .-r, - T1 lj - - - - ; Service to Others! Main Course In Salvation Army School ' I i y' Han ii Parsons ami nuc ir tlio fomtliefl to whose Borvfoc obe Is dodl-! dodl-! eating Iter life. B) Kl SS MMON ION CHICAGO Twenty, pretty yet never the possessor of a party dress! Indignant of shimmy shaking, theatres the-atres and midnight cabarets yet wise. I almost, as a wjnlte-hnlred magistrate in ihe wayn nf poverty and at) u begets. That's Down J'araons. Ur, If you ; please Cadet Dawn Parsons, Salva , tiou Army. AVitii ,r,4 otlier girls from all jjarts , of t ho country , .Miss Parsons is a I student of tho Salvation Army traln- lng college here. Nine nion.il ' t:. lining will make, lur a fuli-floidgcd probationary, lleu-ten'ant lleu-ten'ant oi the army Now she is earning to blow a cornet, cor-net, smd shako a tambourine; and I wfiole pages or' Gdipel and the hymn hook from cover to cover. She's Learning, to. how to set a baby'ai broken arm; how to scrub :;nd cool; Misy Parsons Is from Evohavlllo, Ind. Her father Is commandant of' the Solvation Army there. "I went tu 12 different schools."! said .Miss J 'ar. ions. The family wusj always moving. There are seven chil- dren in our family, so we always were poor. I took n business course in high school." The queerest Utile smile fluttered on her lips. ' I was awfully worldly," she explained. ex-plained. "I envied other girls' pretty clothes and i even wanted to know how to dunce: v "l said that when I worked and earned my own money I'd hu.-dresses hu.-dresses and things. But 1 didn't Not n when .1 rich woman wanted to adopt me and promised mo a fur coat Hire hers. "Papa, you sec, always taught u that tho only way to bs happ) 9 i tu give." There arc girls. Dawn conceded, who would not like to stand ankle di p In slusli un a street corner when there was winter in the air and sing hymns with a gutter loafer burlesquing burlesqu-ing the sucrcd music. sOULS TO Bl SAVED "But I don't mind it," she declared, "That a the only way to reach luts of folks who might nut come to church. That clow n -and-outer might follow you tO the hall: he might be hungry and you could, feed him. or ho might want a Job and you could liinl it for him. Then, too they aU have souls that ought to be saved. " it is not easy to become a student at the college The first require-: men) Is that the applicant be n member mem-ber of the Salvation Army, thus proving prov-ing sincerity. She must be suited to the work, the hurd life of the Worker, Work-er, and be physically fit. "But If she's those things and rhe really, truly want? to bo happy ui her life." says Miss ParSons, a girl shoura come here." |
